In February 2014 the course starts as the years before - following the guidelines below. Classical concepts of project organization will be discussed and practical cases. The students should prepare classes. They should check and review organizational issues in the field where they work. A representation of roles and responsibilities will be trained.
The course starts with core concepts of project organization. PMBOK® and Kerzner´s book on project management are the main sources for the fundamentals. Regarding PMBOK® in 5th edition recently published the classical contributions on project organization are more or less the same as in the 4th edition. There is an additional knowledge area on stakeholder management with further contributions on project organization we will discuss. Regarding Kerzner we have to focus on the chapters on Organizational Structures, Organizing and Staffing the Project Office and Team, and the Project Office. Regarding PMBOK®we first focus on the chapter onProject Life Cycle and Organization.
Students are requested to study these chapters before they go to classes. In the classes we will discuss the concepts and the way to install and manage project organization in various kinds of projects.
Presentations will be used to open the course: Organization 1
In classes we will focus on project organization from the perspective of roles and responsibilities - stakeholder analysis is a core issue.
The Core Concept of Stakeholders
All persons involved in projects are called stakeholders. The project sponsor, the project manager, but also all those who have to deal with the outcomes of a project are stakeholders.
All students are requested to search for projects in their organizations or in another context and to identify the stakeholders. All students should prepare a list of stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities in the project - and a presentation to introduce these stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities. In our classes we want to go deeper into stakeholder analysis by using Object Roles Models. This approach is not only important to get a better understanding or organizations but also to develop organization. Organizational development reshapes roles and responsibilities - and the better we understand roles and responsibilities the better we can manage changes.
A project needs its own organization and the organization of a project must be linked to other organizations - to organizations sponsoring the project, to organizations using the outcomes of a project, to organizations that take the core responsibility of a project, and often many others.
Somethings projects are mostly embedded in another organization. A project for example dealing with the implementation of a new information system may be embedded in a company - most people working in the project may be employees of that company - probably supported by some external consultant
EuroMPM Project Organization 2014 Bilbao
Course concept
In February 2014 the course starts as the years before - following the guidelines below. Classical concepts of project organization will be discussed and practical cases. The students should prepare classes. They should check and review organizational issues in the field where they work. A representation of roles and responsibilities will be trained.
In addition to that a introduction to the new standard IPMA Organization Competence Baseline is integrated and will be applied in the homework after classes in February. IPMA OCB Presentation
The course starts with core concepts of project organization. PMBOK® and Kerzner´s book on project management are the main sources for the fundamentals. Regarding PMBOK® in 5th edition recently published the classical contributions on project organization are more or less the same as in the 4th edition. There is an additional knowledge area on stakeholder management with further contributions on project organization we will discuss. Regarding Kerzner we have to focus on the chapters on Organizational Structures, Organizing and Staffing the Project Office and Team, and the Project Office. Regarding PMBOK® we first focus on the chapter on Project Life Cycle and Organization.
Students are requested to study these chapters before they go to classes. In the classes we will discuss the concepts and the way to install and manage project organization in various kinds of projects.
Presentations will be used to open the course: Organization 1
In classes we will focus on project organization from the perspective of roles and responsibilities - stakeholder analysis is a core issue.
The Core Concept of Stakeholders
All persons involved in projects are called stakeholders. The project sponsor, the project manager, but also all those who have to deal with the outcomes of a project are stakeholders.
All students are requested to search for projects in their organizations or in another context and to identify the stakeholders. All students should prepare a list of stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities in the project - and a presentation to introduce these stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities. In our classes we want to go deeper into stakeholder analysis by using Object Roles Models. This approach is not only important to get a better understanding or organizations but also to develop organization. Organizational development reshapes roles and responsibilities - and the better we understand roles and responsibilities the better we can manage changes.
Stakeholder Register Form
All students should have a first look at a paper on object role modeling before they go to classes : ORM White Paper -
ORM Introduction:
ORM Shapes Powerpoint based
ORM Conference 1
ORM Project
eurompm2013issues eurompmbilbaoprojectorganization2013homework
Some links
Project Management organizational structures
Project management organization
Stakeholder management
Identify stakeholders
PMO Handbook
Organizational structure
Organizational architecture
RACI matrix
World Bank Projects
A project needs its own organization and the organization of a project must be linked to other organizations - to organizations sponsoring the project, to organizations using the outcomes of a project, to organizations that take the core responsibility of a project, and often many others.
Somethings projects are mostly embedded in another organization. A project for example dealing with the implementation of a new information system may be embedded in a company - most people working in the project may be employees of that company - probably supported by some external consultant